AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Compare AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050

Price

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$ 863.63

$ 249.99

$ 613.64 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

24876 points

344% significantly better overall score

5591 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

529 FPS

394 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

135 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

350 FPS

284 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

66 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

477 FPS

382 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

95 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

207 FPS

155 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

52 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

6837 points

195% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

2317 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

4050.95 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

2880.41 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

212685 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

97092 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

238996 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

91845 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1855 MHz

2317 MHz

24% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2500 MHz

2572 MHz

2% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

960 GB/s

200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

355 W

130 W

173% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

480 Gigapixels/s

483% significantly higher pixel rate

82.3 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

960 Gigatexels/s

366% significantly higher texture rate

205.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

6144

139% significantly more shading units

2560

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

384

380% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

3rd of 597

91st of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 December

2025 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 7900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 5050 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX GPU is faster than the GeForce RTX 5050 in gaming.

The GeForce RTX 5050 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5050 has a significantly lower TDP at 130 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX at 355 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is better than the GeForce RTX 5050.